The central town square, named after the patron saint of Lovran, is dominated by a magnificent sacral building dedicated to the same saint. The Romanesque Church of St George was built in the 12th century. Its sanctuary with frescoes dates from the 15th century. The church received its final appearance during the Baroque period.

The Romanesque Church of St John the Baptist was built in the Old Town on the foundations of an earlier 12th-century sacral building by the Fraternity of St John the Baptist in the 14th century. The interior of the church is decorated with frescoes depicting scenes from the life of this saint.

Outside the walls of the Old Town, next to the harbour, there is a park that used to be a cemetery. Of the three former churches, only the one dedicated to the Holy Trinity remains today. This small, single-nave church is the oldest preserved monument in Lovran. In the Gothic period, it received its distinctive door and window frames.

Lovran’s impressive town tower, located on the edge of St George’s Square, was once part of the town’s defensive walls. It is the only surviving remnant of the former fortification system. Today, it is an attractive exhibition space, from the top of which there is a beautiful view of the Old Town, the sea and the Kvarner islands.

The gate that once connected Lovran with its harbour is the only preserved original town gate. It was named Stubica after the flight of steps that led to the harbour and was used by everyone who arrived in Lovran by sea. The custom of stroking the carved stone on the side for a happy entrance into the Old Town has remained up to the present day.

Cortiles are a distinctive feature of Mediterranean architecture: lovely small courtyards surrounded by stone walls that were entered through portals, i.e. arched entrances. The centre of the courtyard was a water cistern. Cortiles are today considered true gems of medieval urban architecture.

The legend in which St George slayed the dragon is the most famous story related to the patron saint of Lovran. On the house that was once the centre of the town administration, opposite the Church of St George, a lunette of the stone portal is surrounded by a wooden relief depicting this legend. It is the work of local masters from the beginning of the 19th century.

Mustaćon, translated as the ‘Moustached Man’, is a striking motif in the lunette of the portal of the patrician house on the Old Town’s main square. The relief of a dark-skinned man with a moustache, beard and turban is the work of master Mihovil Zierer’s workshop in Rijeka. Its task was to protect the house from evil forces.

Lovran was a frequent destination for European monarchs. The King of Saxony Friedrich II Augustus, a passionate botanist who explored the natural riches of Mount Učka, visited the town several times. The plaque in Latin and Italian commemorates his visit to Lovran in June 1845.

Vicko Palmić was one of the Quarneroli, skilled sailors from this area who took part in the Austro-Hungarian North Pole Expedition at the end of the 19th century. A plaque commemorating the venture of the Admiral Tegetthoff and the fearlessness of the Kvarner sailors was placed at his birth house in Lovran.